Now in their third year, The Travel Technology Europe Innovation Award celebrates the achievements of the travel technology industry and recognises outstanding innovation. The TTE innovation award is voted for my TTE visitors.
Details of winning innovation:
MICROS Travel is the UK's leading supplier of travel systems for travel agents.
MICROS Systems Group, Inc provides enterprise applications for the hospitality and retail industries worldwide. Over 220,000 MICROS systems are currently installed in table and quick service restaurants, hotels, motels, casinos, leisure and entertainment, and retail & travel operations in more than 130 countries, and on all seven continents
Winning Product Entry:
SABSCorporate takes online travel booking to the next level. The systems unique design consolidates all preferred GDS, rail, hotel and ground transportation providers into one simple to use, web based, self-booking tool.
In order to give the end user all of the information required to make the most cost-effective reservation, the unique “Holistic Costing” facility calculates: Fares + Fees + Applicable Rebates + CO2 + Man Hour Cost = Most cost effective reservation
SABSCorporate’s Intelligent Packaging Facility then searches all suppliers and dynamically packages together the most cost effective Flight or Train, Hotel and Taxi whilst taking into consideration corporate policy, carbon cost, man-hour cost and corporate governance. Coupled with Micros Travel’s process and ticket automation systems, SABSCorporate truly can deliver a touchless booking-tofulfilment process for the TMC.
Customer Testimonial:
Research proves that to compare a simple journey (train vs. flight) from London to Manchester, with a hotel and taxi service took an average of 26 minutes. A single SABSCorporate search returned all relevant results in less than one minute, with the booking being completed from an intelligent package with in 4 minutes.
“Many people claim leading edge technology in their sales patter, often the words are a cliché and the reality is somewhat different. The team at Micros have truly delivered a product that is not only leading edge but is one that will turn heads in the commercial travel market.” Ian Wotton, Redfern Travel.
For further information:
Contact details:
Jean Longshaw, Micros Travel – 0161 941 1307
Neil Simpson, Travel Technology Europe – 0207 970 6546
Note for Editors:
Travel Technology Europe
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Micros Travel
MICROS Systems Group, Inc . provides enterprise applications for the hospitality and retail industries worldwide. Over 220,000 MICROS systems are currently installed in table and quick service restaurants, hotels, motels, casinos, leisure and entertainment, and retail & travel operations in more than 130 countries, and on all seven continents. In addition, MICROS provides property management systems, central reservation and customer information solutions under the brand MICROS-Fidelio for more than 20,000 hotels worldwide, as well as point-of-sale and loss prevention products through its subsidiary Datavantage for more than 50,000 specialty retail stores worldwide. MICROS stock is traded through NASDAQ under the symbol MCRS.
Based in Hale, Cheshire, MICROS Travel is part of MICROS Systems Group Inc. This global network consists of over 4,300 employees, 45 subsidiaries in major markets and 111 distributors in 130 countries.